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A photograph of a bare-chested man in a dramatic Kalabhairava-style costume, smiling broadly before a gilded ornate backdrop. He wears a large red-maroon turban wrapped with rudraksha beads and a crescent ornament, a gold forehead band, white vertical line marks, gold hoop earrings, and heavy layered rudraksha malas with an ornate gold collar. Tiger-striped armbands are on his upper arms. Behind him a gold-leaf deity murti holds a staff, and a brass drum or instrument is at the left edge. Swamiji (probable): long-bearded man with distinctive ceremonial turban, rudraksha malas and gold ornaments, presented as the subject of the live darshan.